As the music industry polar flip plowed through 1968, RPM eliminated it's Canadian Hits chart in February, and by April Canadian artist records all but disappeared from the RPM 100 chart. The only record that carried-over into April (barely) was by the Lords of London and during the next 3 months only 3 Canadian artists successfully landed records in the RPM 100, which became just another Top 100 chart akin to those found in Cash Box, Billboard and Record World. Nothing to see here.
Gordon Lightfoot, Witness Inc. and 3's a Crowd were the chosen three. RPM did return a short Canadian Content chart (there's a big difference between "content" and "hits") at some point during the summer of 1968, perhaps following a backlash in regards to what transpired during the Spring.
Canada Spring 1968
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